the best cellphone provider depend entirely on where you are at. currently it seems almost all (may all because the fed is driving them away from analogue so they can reuse that radio band?) phone service providers only offer digital service. digital service (PCS, GSM, TDMA) requires a larger number of antennas to cover the same amount area fewer analog towers do. This means, you have to be closer to an available tower for digital service...so that type of service sucks in areas where there aren't a lot of towers and there are a lot of mountains. Analog actually works better in more rural areas because it requires less antennas. And stuff.